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QUOTE (BSG @ Sep 10 2004, 11:26 PM) GG! I never knew you got a Meet & Greet with Mr. NEP!!! You never told us, but look what I found on the internet! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v411/bsg2112/bsg2112/NEPandGG2.jpg LOL Someone discovered Fireworks or Photoshop

QUOTE (Rivendell @ Sep 10 2004, 11:24 PM) QUOTE (BSG @ Sep 10 2004, 06:49 PM) Yo! Yoda!!!!! Calling you we are! A picture to be posting you must! Come back he may not. lol someone else go, if yoda ever returns then they can do one Need a 24 hour rule or something lol

QUOTE (CygnusX-1Bk2 @ Sep 9 2004, 08:55 PM) I am not one to bother celebrities, but I am not above it. Bob Crane (Col. Hogan) I met him at a Buddy Rich/Louie Bellson concert in 1978 (my first "professional" concert). He was a drummer and happened to be at the show. Got his autograph on the show program. Robin Williams #1 Met him at the PSA (former airline) counter at the SF airport just after John Belushi's death in 1982. Apparently we were all on the same plane from southern California. My brother got his autograph on a scrap of paper. Williams looked drugged, but was very pleasant. Chris Holmes (WASP) They were opening for KISS in 1986 on the second no-make-up tour. I was on the rail in front of some PA speakers, just zoning out big time, staring off into the distance. Holmes motioned to me trying to get my attention to see if I was ok. I shook my head and regained full consciousness and noticed Mr. Holmes motioning to me. I looked up, smiled, and acknowledged what seemed genuine concern for me (let's face it, concerts can get rough). He said "OK" and smiled and continued to rock on. He gave me a pick that I can no longer find. It was made of metal. Very cool. I always thought this was a cool gesture from a guy in a band I didn't like that much (at the time). Whenever I see a WASP video or the Decline of the Western Civilization I reflect on this incident. He's alright in my book, despite being a drunken mess a lot of the time. Peter Erskine Met him at a drum clinic at Drum World in Daly City (near SF) in the mid 80s. Told him about the old Slingerland catalog from 1976 I had with him in it. He commented about the crappy finish those drums had. Surprisingly Neil was not in that catalog, otherwise I would have known about Rush then. Kenny Aaronoff My friend Adam and I had a long discussion with him following a drum clinic at a local Guitar Center. We spoke for about 2 hours about different aspects of drumming. A really cool guy. Met him again 2 years later and he remembered us. Les Paul #1 and Steve Vai At Les Paul day at the House of Blues in LA in 1994. Talked to Les for a bit after the show. He signed my Epiphone Sheraton (a semi-hollow guitar like Alex's old 355) as well as my dad's Gold Top Les Paul. A very nice guy. During the show Slash and Steve Vai were inches from me (onstage). At one point I talked to Vai and tried to give him a tape of my drumming, which he of course declined to take. Can't blame me for trying. Robin Williams #2 I had just started school at the Academy of Art College in SF back in 1995 and was walking around the city checking out where my classes were to be held. I saw Mr. Williams walk into a software store as I walked down the street. After walking a few more steps down the street I realized who he was and sheepishly walked into the store. I walked up to him and said that I really enjoyed his work and shook his hand. He seemed a bit nervous, but I am pretty harmless. I mentioned the story of seeing him at the airport and told him that I had just started film school. He wished me luck and I was on my way. Very genuine man. Shorter than me, and I am not really tall at 5' 9". Joe DiMaggio My family was in a suite at the Oakland Coliseum for an A's game and we noticed that in the suite one over from ours there was old Mr. Coffee himself. My grandfather played ball with his brother Dom in the 30s and 40s. We saw him exit his suite and my grandfather wanted to say hi. We approached him from behind and he became rather unnerved and before we could say anything he said that he didn't give autographs. My grandfather said that he played ball with his brother but he wanted nothing to do with us. Oh well. He was dead a couple of years later. Poor guy never got over a lot of stuff. Les Paul #2 and then some Les Paul plays every Monday in NYC and everytime my dad and I are in town we go to see him play (in fact my dad was there last week during the convention). I had him sign a pickguard from my newest Les Paul. I mentioned the LA show in '94 and he said "Some guy brought a hollowbody for me to sign." I said that was me. I showed him the Epiphone catalog with him in it and he signed that too. He said that some of the Epiphones were better than the Gibsons. NAMM 2004: Bill Bruford, Chris Squire, Alan White, Eric Bloom, Terry Bozzio, Carmine and Vinny Appice, Danny Carey, Rudy Sarzo, Chester Thompson, Dave Weckl, Simon Phillips, Steve Smith, Stewart Copeland, and many more than I can remember. Most of these were casual but I had pix taken with a few of these. James Hetfield I was getting a hot dog for lunch a couple of weeks ago and Hetfield was having a dog with his young son. He was all cleaned up, despite his tattoos. He looked at me as I figured out why I recognized him. I'm not that big of a Metallica fan. I didn't want to intrude, plus I couldn't think anything clever to say other than "Can't wait for the movie" (which I was not) or "You guys really suck now that Cliff is gone." He had a look like I was going to bother him. Must be the hair. There are others, but this is more than plenty. My boss is very famous, but I can't say who he is without being fired. Very cool Cyg! Thank you for sharing! I have heard Robin Williams is extremely nervous/shy kinda like Neil Peart with the public - did you sense that? (Particularly maybe in the later meet)

VERY cool!!! Man he looked different then!

QUOTE (ladirushfan80 @ Sep 9 2004, 04:20 PM) what was this poll about? sex and what?????

QUOTE (GhostGirl @ Sep 9 2004, 10:57 AM) QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Sep 9 2004, 09:42 AM) Winter will be better skies anyway.... Autumn woods and winter skies..... I've got a song in my heart, what can I say? That is a great boot!

QUOTE (Moonraker @ Sep 9 2004, 10:38 AM) Always beautiful pics RR, got any more? From APOD (Hubble, etc) yes. From my telescope, no - I need to (this weekend?) but some high end locking casters so I can roll it out from my garage easier. It is soooooo heavy and I hate lifting the thing (and ducking with it lifted to avoid knocking it on the garage door jam). I will probably do that this week. Winter will be better skies anyway, so I plan on having it out a lot then. I also spoke with the police and they agreed to let me use a local park here with no lights, etc for viewing so that will be cool... Less backlight.... I did get it out for the full moon a week or two ago and let my 3 year old look thru it, but she can't seem to get the hang of closing ONE eye and looking thru the little hole - plus it is so big/high that I have to lift her and hold her steady for her to see

QUOTE (Phoenix @ Sep 9 2004, 10:32 AM) QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Sep 9 2004, 09:23 AM) Probably not yet, but it is a thought I had... Soon. We may eliminate one forum here in non-rush anyway soon if things don't change there, which will open up for something new... I would like to see that eventually too, especially with the winter skies coming I plan to have my telescope out often this winter Saturn will start being viisble in about a month pre-sunrise here and I will want to take some pics thru my telescope and post them Your own pictures are reason enough to start a new section for this. I loved your pictures back on RT. Would be a shame not to share them here. Do you have to close one to start a new? Is there a limit? No limit to # of forums, but we just don't want it to get to convoluted (my word of the month LOL)... Soon though we will...

QUOTE (Phoenix @ Sep 9 2004, 10:08 AM) BTW-The frances pic is kind of scary. I can't wait to see their Ivan pic... They are saying Ivan is the strongest hurricane in a decade - sustained winds of 160 so far and still warm water to go over to increase power....

QUOTE (Phoenix @ Sep 9 2004, 09:30 AM) QUOTE (RushRevisited @ Sep 9 2004, 08:21 AM) AWESOME Phoenix!!!!! Every month a new fantastic picture made by Hubble. The Hubble Heritage Gallery A must seen for me. Awesome Phoenix! Thanks for the link! My fav (per these posts) is APOD: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

QUOTE (Relaxed_Jack @ Sep 9 2004, 09:13 AM) Did you check out the APOD on 8-30-04 about the comet they discovered last year may be visible next month? Sounds like a good time to head out to the country.

AWESOME Phoenix!!!!!

Explanation: These three bright nebulae are often featured in telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the view toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the nebula above and left of center, and colorful M20 at the lower left. The third, NGC 6559, is at the right of M8, separated from the the larger nebula by a dark dust lane. All three are stellar nurseries about five thousand light-years or so distant. The expansive M8, over a hundred light-years across, is also known as the Lagoon Nebula while M20's popular moniker is the Trifid. In this gorgeous digital composition, the dominant red color of the emission nebulae is due to glowing hydrogen gas energized by the radiation of hot, young stars. The contrasting blue hues, most striking in the Trifid as well as NGC 6559, are due to dust reflected starlight. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0409/sagTriplet_gendler_c1.jpg

QUOTE (yoda @ Sep 9 2004, 12:17 AM) think' s forgive me for diving in but you don't get something for nothing Dive away!

QUOTE (yoda @ Sep 9 2004, 12:06 AM) SORRY JUST LEARNING HOW TO DO THIS I THINK THE PICTURE IS MAYBE MARATHON Hey Welcome to TheRushForum Yoda!

QUOTE (Digital Man @ Sep 8 2004, 11:27 AM) I met Alan Funt in a theatre in SF years ago. He came up to me & said "Excuse me..." I immediately realized who he was & thought Oh God what silly ass stupid thing have I done today? But all he wanted was dorections to the bathroom. You should have given him wrong direction, then when he realized it say "Excuse me, can you look intot hat camera over there and smile?..."

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0409/bhtorus_esa_big.jpg Explanation: Why do some black hole surroundings appear brighter than others? In the centers of active galaxies, supermassive black holes at least thousands of times the mass of our Sun dominate. Many, called Seyfert Type I, are very bright in visible light. Others, called Seyfert Type II, are rather dim. The difference might be caused by some black holes accreting much more matter than others. Alternatively, the black holes in the center of Seyfert Type II galaxies might be obscured by a surrounding torus. To help choose between these competing hypotheses, the nearby Seyfert II galaxy NGC 4388 has been observed in X-ray light recently by many recent Earth-orbiting X-ray observatories, including CGRO, SIGMA, BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, Chandra, and XMM-Newton. Recent data from INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton have found that the X-ray flux in some X-ray colors varies rapidly, while flux in other X-ray colors is quite steady. The constant flux and apparent absorption of very specific X-ray colors by cool iron together give evidence that the central black hole in NGC 4388 is seen through a thick torus composed of molecular gas and dust.

QUOTE (pedro2112 @ Sep 8 2004, 12:23 AM) Whomever it is, it must be someone that people will listen to. As an experienced moderator on several political forums on the net, I know how worthless it is to have a moderator who doesn't have either cred or teeth. I'd vote for either Pix or 1001001. What about you Pedro?

From APOD on Saturday: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0409/m51_hst.jpg Explanation: The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the brightest and most picturesque galaxies on the sky. The above image is a digital combination of a ground-based image from the 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and a space-based image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlighting sharp features normally too red to be seen. Anyone with a good pair of binoculars, however, can see this Whirlpool toward the constellation of Canes Venatici. M51 is a spiral galaxy of type Sc and is the dominant member of a whole group of galaxies. Astronomers speculate that M51's spiral structure is primarily due to its gravitational interaction with a smaller galaxy just off the top of this digitally sharpened image.